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Having on boarded numerous businesses onto the AWS platform, Rackspace found three best practices to be routinely missing from its customers’ architectural designs. These best practices for automation, scaling and segmentation, utilize capabilities inherent on the AWS platform to help drive an easier deployment.

IT transformation is never easy – being a continuous endeavor with no single, definite endpoint – which makes the CIO role in the future of enterprise IT, more important and more difficult. Our e-book, The CIO’s IT Transformation Guide, helps CIOs avoid known pitfalls with a tour of the Rackspace framework to explore IT transformation results in the trenches. With examples of real-world successes and challenges taken from within Rackspace, and the companies that have journeyed with Rackspace, this is a must-have resource for the modern CIO.

SapientRazorfish is a global company that helps organizations in digital business transformation. For these enterprises, cloud migration is a mandate, and SapientRazorfish ensures the desired outcomes are achieved with Rackspace Fanatical Support for AWS services – to provide clients with expertise in planning, architecture services and counseling, migration, deployment, infrastructure maintenance and solution optimization.

Financial services companies migrating to the cloud often need to optimize their infrastructure for innovation and agile delivery. International payments provider, OFX, accomplished this with Rackspace Fanatical Support for AWS, to successfully re-architecture its systems when its application portfolio was migrated from a colocation environment to a highly secure, compliant and scalable environment, on a managed AWS platform.

Running an IT backend that is secure, scalable and well-managed is resource draining for any enterprise. Challenger, Singapore’s largest IT retailer, took a more pragmatic route by transforming on a Online to Offline (O2O) model. For the journey, it partnered with Rackspace to accelerate the value of its AWS cloud migration, by tapping its proven AWS expertise, strong managed services portfolio, and familiarity with local regulatory compliance and cloud security demands

Banks embarking on any cloud activities must first overcome the compliance of rigorous security policies and regulations. For its 100th anniversary commemorative website, The Bank of East Asia (BEA) partnered Rackspace Professional Services – for expertise and advice on advanced cloud management, best practices and security – to help with the designing of a highly secured and compliant AWS environment to host the new, celebratory website.

The Cisco® Incident Response team is led by elite security specialists who can uncover the source of threats by analyzing and synthesizing intelligence from multiple sources. These sought-after specialists consistently deliver resolution in a shorter timeframe, returning businesses like yours to normal. Fast.
To find out more about Cisco Incident Response Services download this whitepaper today.

Rackspace is achieving the identified goals through an integrated approach of increasing both on-page relevancy and earned media signals. These strategies are aimed at influencing search and directing traffic to its website.

Organizations need to work with suppliers that not only have a clear long-term vision, but that can implement it in a way that ensures cost-efficient scalability and a small administrative footprint. Dell’s PowerEdge portfolio of servers have been available for several years in a variety of configuration options, such as towers, racks, blades and converged infrastructure. The paper discusses VRTX and FX as innovation proof points for Dell’s compute infrastructure vision.

Prophix gives you a clear picture of all your operational costs and connects them with key factors that are driving your revenues. That increased line-of-sight is made possible because Prophix tracks and monitors all day-to-day operational planning activities. Improving operational outcomes for the short-term and providing insights into your future operations

This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling, racks, physical security, monitoring, and lighting. The focus of this paper is on small server rooms and branch offices with up to 10kW of IT load.

At Zendesk, they see using New Relic and Rackspace® solutions as a winning combination. New Relic allows them
to understand the performance characteristics of their application, to monitor performance and quickly drill down to
find and resolve issues. Additionally, New Relic shows Zendesk how their application interacts with the Rackspace infrastructure underpinnings so they can achieve the most effective and efficient use of their hosting environment. Together the Rackspace hosting environment and the New Relic application performance tool creates a foundation for SaaS application success. In turn, this frees up the Zendesk team to work on application features.

Making key decisions that improve business performance requires more than simple insights. It takes deep data discovery and a keen problem solving approach to think beyond the obvious. As a business leader, you ought to have access to information most relevant to you that helps you anticipate potential business headwinds and craft strategies which can turn challenges into opportunities finally leading to favorable business outcomes.
WNS DecisionPoint , a one-of-its kind thought leadership platform tracks industry segments served by WNS and presents thought-provoking original perspectives based on rigorous data analysis and custom research studies. Coupling empirical data analysis with practical ideas around the application of analytics, disruptive technologies, next-gen customer experience, process
transformation and business model innovation; we aim to arm you with decision support frameworks based on points of fact.

Rackspace Quick Start for Google Cloud Platform helps enterprises expedite their migration to Google Cloud using proven design, automation, and migration methodologies—all executed by Rackspace experts who have deployed more than a million applications into the cloud.
By partnering with your company’s cross-functional leaders, our professional adoption team will fast-track your journey to the cloud—typically moving your first application(s) to the cloud within the first few weeks of the program.
This annual review includes an assistance with a disaster recovery (DR) simulation, audit of patch levels, and upl eveling the deployment tools to ensure they align with the infrastructure that may have evolved since deployment.

Whether you’re already a Google customer or simply getting started with the public cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is an aordable, reliable, innovative and intuitive cloud solution. Rackspace can help you accelerate innovation and cost savings by taking over the intensive dayto-day operations of GCP — letting you focus on achieving your core business objectives while optimizing the performance of your applications.
Rackspace works with customers to identify the scope and criticality of their applications and determine the service level that best addresses their needs.
To discover how, download this whitepaper today.

Nearly nine in 10 enterprises have adopted a multi-cloud strategy, according to the latest RightScale State of the Cloud Report, and these enterprises use eight different clouds, on average. Increasingly, their cloud of choice is a public cloud.
Every public cloud, however, is different. GCP is rapidly gaining users among companies of all sizes.
Today, GCP’s customers include large global brands like Disney, eBay, HSBC, The Home Depot, Schlumberger and Verizon, and smaller ones like gaming platform Smash.gg and the Rhode Island School of Design, one of the nation’s leading arts and design institutions.
Whether GCP is a good fit for your company depends on a multitude of factors. To find out what these are and how Rackspace can help your business, download this whitepaper today.

As cloud deployments accelerate, there's no question that Federal agencies are reaping the benefits – improved agility, less IT complexity, and greater collaboration through shared services. But, while the benefits are clear, concerns around data stewardship and management can stop migrations in their tracks.
So how are Federal agencies dealing with the control challenge? To find out, MeriTalk surveyed 153 Federal IT professionals closely involved in their agency's cloud implementations.